Biography

Resume:

Diplomas:

• August., 2000: Ph.D.
  

• in MIRALab, Center University of Information, Faculty of Science, University of Geneva, Switzerland. Thesis is titled on "Feature-Based Approach on Animatable Virtual Human Cloning" supervised by Prof. Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann
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• Enjoy a movie from the PhD defense! Very big. Over 300,000 KB
  
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• March, 1999: Postgraduate Certificate 

• Nov. 1997: DESSI (Diplôme d'Etudes Supérieures en Systèmes d'Information)
  
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• in University of Geneva, Switzerland. Thesis is titled on "3D Reconstruction of the Face from Pictures" supervised by Prof. Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann.
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• Oct. 1997: Master of Science
  
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• in Institute of Systems Science, National University of Singapore, Singapore. Thesis is titled on "3D reconstruction of catheter from 2D profiles" supervised by Dr. Tim Poston.
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• Feb. 1993: Master of Science
  

• Feb. 1991: Bachelor of Science

Academic Honors:

• 1994–1996                 
• NUS General Scholarship

• 1992                           
• POSTECH Excellent Graduate Student Scholarship (selected as the best in the Dept. of the year)

• 1989 (2nd Semester)  
• POSTECH International Exchange Student Scholarship (funded by donations from the B.H.O. and Harmersley Iron and Steel Co. of Australia) – selected to spend one semester in School of Mathematics & Statistics, The University of Birmingham, Birmingham, U.K., fully supported by POSTECH

• 1987–1990                 
• POSTECH General Scholarship

Working experience:

• 2008 - present : Tenured Associate Professor, School of Information Technology and Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Ottawa, Canada
  
• 2003 -  2008 : Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, School of Information Technology and Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Ottawa, Canada
  
• 2002 - 2003: Senior Researcher, Human Vision team, Human-Computer Interaction Lab, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technolgy, YoungIn, South Korea
• 2001 - 2002: Senior Software Engineer, Eyematic Interfaces, Inc. Los Angeles, U.S.A.
• 2000 - 2001: Post-Doctoral  in Univ. of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
• 1996 - 2000 : Research Assistant in Univ. of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
• 1993 - 1994 : Computer Science Researcher in software lab, Korea Telecom Research Center, Seoul, South Korea
• 1991 - 1993 : Teaching Assistant in POSTECH, Pohang, South Korea.

Professional activities:

• NSERC Strategic Project Selection committee - ACMI-A panel, 2009-2011

• International conference/workshop Program Committee

• Computer Graphics International 2011 (Program Co-Chair)
• Graphics Interface 2010 (Posters Chair)
• IEEE Virtual Reality 2009-2011
• ACM SIGGRAPH VRCAI 2008,2009
• The Workshop on 3D Physiological Human 2009
• Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA) 2004- 2010
• Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (GRAPP) 2007- 2011
• Computer Graphics International (CGI) 2008-2011
• IEEE International Workshop on HAVE 2004-2005, 2007- 2010
• FuturePlay 2006, 2007
• IASTED-HCI 2007

• Editorial Review Board
• Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds, Wiley, ISSN: 1546-4261
  
• International Journal of Creative Interfaces and Computer Graphics
  

• Reviewer for conferences : All the conferences with duty as PC member and Eurographics 2004, PG 2006, The Workshop on 3D Physiological Human 2008.
  


• Reviewer for journals : Visual Computer, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics,   IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, Computer Graphics Forum, Real-Time Imaging, Pattern Recognition, IEEE TVCG, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation & Measurement

• Reviewer for projects : Canada, Austria
  

Projects involved (1996-2003):

• in Human Vision TG, Samsung A.I.T., South Korea:

• Video surveillance
• Multi-view face recognition/descriptor (MEPG-7 Korean delegate) : using descriptor optimization, image-based feature extraction (PCA/LDA and image processing filters) and/or 3D morphing technology

• in Eyematic Interfaces, Inc., USA:    

• FaceStation: Real-time markerless Facial Tracking for 3D avatar animation software
• Xpression: 3D character creation and animation for web-pages

• in MIRALab, Univ. of Geneva, Switzerland:    

• Swiss projects: FNRS, CO-ME (medical project for biomechanical diagnosis for human articulation)


• European projects: eRENA (deliverable)(population generation), VPARK (distributed virtual environments), eTailor (clothes on the web), SONG (virtual worlds, multi-user platforms and intelligent agents), Crosses (population generation), TREMOR (medical training project with virtual therapist - main coordinator for MIRALab).
  

• Developed an adaptive mesh method, which converts any human body shape mesh to an avatar based on an international standard (H-Anim 1.1 format). This method immediately animates a laser-scanned human body in 3D Studio Max, with animation parameters produced by the system.
• Created body-morphing system to enable hybrid virtual avatars. 
• Coordinator for the CO-ME* Swiss medical project for human articulation diagnosis.  (Collaboration with EPFL and University Hospital of Geneve, *CO-ME: The National Centre for Competence in Research Computer Aided and Image Guided Medical Interventions
• Supported several European projects in University of Geneva.
• 3D reconstruction of animatable body from three photographs.
• 3D face morphing of animatable face in real time.
• Adaptive mesh methods to create animation on 3D-scanned face.
• 3D reconstruction of animatable faces from two photographs.
• Coordinator of the TREMOR EU medical training project, concerning a Virtual Therapist that demonstrates the giving of tests previously defined by Clinical partners, and guides a patient for correct performance.
• Participated in several Swiss and European projects (contributed to proposals and deliverables, attending international meetings) and international public demonstrations.
  

Public demonstrations participated:

• Participated the final demonstration for Korean national Research project ‘HCI’, 2002, Dec. (SAIT, KR)

• Invited for participation (& supported) by third party
• ORBIT'98 in Basel (CH)
• CEBIT'99 in Hannover (DE)
• SMAU'99 in Milan (IT)
• TELECOM'99 in Geneva (CH)
• Computer-expo 2000 at Lausanne (CH)
• Bilan (2000, 29–30 May) at Geneva and Zurich (CH)
  
• Interactive show, “The Utopians”, (June 2001) at Casino Hilton Geneva (CH)
  

• Participated inside festival program in university or conference
• Uni-Mail Fete'99 in Geneva (CH)
• CA2000 (June 21–23) Geneva

• Provided systems to commercial parties
• L'Oreal booth in Millennium Dome 2000 in London (GB) (one year demonstration)
• Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Neuchâtel (long-term demonstration starting from 2000)

Companies who use my methodology (body-cloning) with my approval:

• http://www.shusaku.co.jp/www/ : a famous software company in Japan

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